The band is also known for reuniting Anthrax members, guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante, with their former bassist Dan Lilker.

from their 1985 debut album, Speak English or Die, was the Headbangers Ball intro anthem for many years.

[1] According to singer Billy Milano, the 24-song extended play of live and unreleased material called Rise of the Infidels, released in August 2007 by Megaforce Records, "will finally be the last of S.O.D.

After finishing his guitar tracks on the Anthrax album Spreading the Disease,[1] Scott Ian would draw pictures of a character known as "Sargent D." The pictures would be accompanied by slogans such as "I'm not racist; I hate everyone" and "Speak English or Die", and Ian would write lyrics about the character.

After their tour ended, Lilker carried on with the band Nuclear Assault while Benante and Ian continued with Anthrax.

[1] The band's first album U.S.A. for M.O.D., featured many lyrics written by Scott Ian,[1] as well as an altered version of "Aren't You Hungry", an unrecorded S.O.D.

reunited to play opposite Biohazard at Irving Plaza, in New York City, for a benefit for Dana Cavalera, to solve his murder.

They played their first European gig at the With Full Force festival in Germany,[6] and in 1999 they released their second studio album, titled Bigger Than the Devil.

The footage in it from the “Ronnie Dobbs Entitilitus Foundation Benefit” was recorded at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco on Friday, November 12, 1999.

Heavy metal news outlets reported in 2003 that the band had split up due to disagreements between Ian and Milano.

It's the opposite of The Damned Things (a supergroup featuring Ian alongside members of Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die), for me, it was never meant to be a real band with a schedule and making records and touring.

"[7]In December 2012, it was announced that Billy Milano and Dan Lilker had reunited in a new band called United Forces.

– Fist Banging Maniacs, with Brazilian musicians João Gordo, Cléber Orsioli and Guilherme Cersosimo filling in for Milano, Ian and Benante respectively.

[13] In May 2020, Benante, Ian and Lilker, along with Mike Patton on vocals, posted a video on YouTube of "Speak Spanish or Die".

Additionally, Scott Ian once recalled that Eddie Vedder was so impacted by the album that he, "cornered me one night at a party for 25 minutes telling me this story about the first time he heard Speak English Or Die and how it affected his life.